Just How Secure Are Blockchain Elections?

On March 7, 2018, voters in Sierra Leone participated in the first ever blockchain-based national election to determine who would replace Ernest Bai Koroma as President of the country. More than two-thirds of voting centers used the novel technology, making it the election that saw the most widespread use of blockchain in history. Technology evangelists around the world lauded the measure, saying that it introduced more transparency and security to the process, and the move has been celebrated as one of the most forward-thinking in the continent of Africa. However, we must ask ourselves one question: Does simply using a